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7:37 am
December 6, 2009


Luke Maurits

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Similar to the recent discovery of Copenhagen Suborbitals (but not quite as ambitious), the Portland State Aerospace Society is "an educational aerospace project at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. The group consists of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff of PSU, and local community members- ranging from high school students to engineers in industry- who are interested in aerospace engineering".  Their "vision statement—or long term goal—is to "put nanosatellites into orbit"".  Their most important similarity to CSTART is "All projects we do are open source, from our CAD drawings to schematic diagrams to our software. We pride ourselves in sharing what we learn with the world of amateur rocket enthusiasts, and with our ability to collaborate with other groups"/p>

They have launched a few solid fuelled rockets so far (only to an altitude of about 3km), but their webpage says they are starting to work on paraffin hybrid rockets, which are one of the options I think we should be considering for OHKLA and possibly CLLARE.  They might be another good group to make contact and initiate knowledge exchange with.

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9:14 am
December 6, 2009


Rocket-To-The-Moon

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Yet another good find. I'm not really sure when it will be a good time to start contacting these groups and people. Are we to a point where we have the manpower to digest all of this new information?

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11:51 am
December 6, 2009


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I am of the opinion that we are at a stage where we should contact other people. The more people on the project the faster we move.

2:18 am
December 14, 2009


Luke Maurits

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I have put a draft "offer of friendship" email template up on the Wiki (for more information about the proposed "friends of CSTART" program, see this thread and this Wiki page).  The template is fairly heavily derived from the drafts that we worked no in the Copenhagen Suborbitals thread.  For the most part it is generic, but there is a spot near the end where we can slip in a single paragraph that is particular to the group we are offering friendship to.

If there are no objections, I propose that our first contact with PSAS take the form of our final version of the template with a specific paragraph slotted in talking about our interest in their GNU/LInux avionics module.  We can draft this paragraph in this thread.

Unless anybody can think of any good reasons not to, I think we should aim to have an email of this form sent to them in the next day or two.

Main workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.

4:12 am
December 14, 2009


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Draft paragraph:

As CSTART is in the early planning stages for the avionics module of the rocket for its OHKLA project, we have taken a particular interest in your GNU/Linux-based flight computers.  We would be very grateful to receive your advice on a variety of avionics related questions if your organization would like to contribute to our cause.  We would, of course, be very happy to answer any questions you may have of us in return.

This could probably use a bit of work, please feel free to post modifications here.

Main workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.

8:01 am
December 18, 2009


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An offer of friendship email has been sent to PSAS today using the above paragraph and the latest offer of friendship template.  I'll let people know when/if they reply.

Main workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.

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